bwxu/brand_protection

Global Brand Protection Project

Takes a list of illicit product listings on marketplaces and constructs an illicit seller network based on listing name, listing description, listing images, and usernames

Requirements: MongoDB, scrapy, Gephy (for visualizations)

Instructions:

1. Run Scrapy

First, Run the spiders using scrapy by calling on command line"scrapy crawl [site]" where [site] is ebay, alibaba, mercadoLibre.

2. Collect Data

Next, put together all scraped raw data together into one mongo collection if multiple websites were used

3. Analyze Data

Then, go to the analysis folder and run AnalyzeRawData.py on the raw data by calling the analyze() function on the collection.

4. Create Visualization

Finally, use CreateNetwork.py to create a Gephy network and run Gephy to see the visualization.